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On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Eric Schwerin <eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com>
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> http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/lupica-joe-biden-run-president-article-1.2249953
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> Lupica: Presidential race benefits if Joe Biden seeks election
> [image: NO SALES] Jason Minto/AP Vice President Joe Biden stood for
> hours to greet each person at his son's funeral. In doing so, he showed
> life and character that would put a charge into the Clintons if he ran for
> President.
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> Joe Biden ought to run for President, and not just because his son has
> died and because he stood for 10 hours the other day and greeted the
> people
> <http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/thousands-mourners-farewell-beau-biden-wake-article-1.2248205>
> who came to pay their last respects to Beau Biden, and also to his father.
> He ought to run because he would bring so much life and so much character
> to the Democratic campaign, and put a charge into the Clintons. Joe Biden
> would bring his immense humanity as well.
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> He got to St. Anthony of Padua Church
> <http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/service-beau-biden-begins-delaware-capitol-article-1.2246771>
> in Wilmington, Del., around 1 o’clock in the afternoon on Friday and stayed
> there until around 11 o’clock. All day and all night the lines kept moving
> and the people kept coming, and once and for all you saw what the country
> thought of Joe Biden, who is so much more than some kind of second banana
> to Barack Obama.
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> Maybe he doesn’t have the energy at 72 to do it, even though he is just
> five years older than Hillary Clinton. Maybe all the loss he has known in
> his years in public life, the loss of his first wife and a daughter and now
> the death of Beau Biden, has taken too much out of him, literally and
> figuratively taken the heart out of him. Maybe he doesn’t have the money to
> take on the Clintons, who sometimes remind you of the Underwoods of “House
> of Cards.”
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> But the whole process would be better and his party would be better for it
> if he ran, if out of the tragedy of the loss of his son, a boy who was
> nearly killed in the automobile accident that took his mother and his
> sister, comes one last great run for Beau Biden’s father, whether he can
> beat Hillary Clinton or not.
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> “Look at all the people you saw in those lines,” a friend of Biden’s, one
> who spent over an hour in one of those lines himself on Friday, said
> Sunday. “You’re not going to see a more representative example of what this
> country is really about.”
> [image: President Obama (R) hugs Vice President Biden during the
> funeral of former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden at St. Anthony of
> Padua Church in Wilmington, Del. on Saturday.] YURI GRIPAS/REUTERS President
> Obama (R) hugs Vice President Biden during the funeral of former Delaware
> Attorney General Beau Biden at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Wilmington,
> Del. on Saturday.
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> When Rich Schapiro of the Daily News, when he finally made it to the front
> of the church, asked the vice president how he’d had the strength to stand
> there the way he had for hour after hour, Joe Biden said, “It’s what Beau
> would have done.”
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> So Joe Biden stood in front of the altar, near the flag-draped coffin of
> his son, and did not leave the church for good until he had greeted the
> last person in the line. This wasn’t just about his Catholic faith on this
> day. There was something as wonderfully American in the strength that Biden
> showed you as the people who kept patiently moving to the front of St.
> Anthony of Padua.
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> You can say that Joe Biden is too old to make one last run. You can say
> that Biden, who came out of Scranton, Pa., and got elected to the U.S.
> Senate back in 1972 and finally ran with Obama, is too proud a man to lose
> to a Clinton, or lose to both of them, which is the reality of a long
> campaign that is just beginning. After all the winning he has done in his
> career, first in Delaware, then with Obama, he doesn’t want to go out
> looking like some kind of loser.
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> But the minute he announced, he would be as good as anybody running for
> President this time, in either party, and far better than most of them.
> [image: Joe Biden said he stood for hours at the funeral of his son,
> Beau Biden (L), because Beau would have done the same. ] CHRIS
> WATTIE/REUTERS Joe Biden said he stood for hours at the funeral of his
> son, Beau Biden (L), because Beau would have done the same.
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> And there should be a part of Biden that shouldn’t want Hillary Clinton to
> run as if she’s the sitting vice president, even if Obama went out of his
> way to make her look that way when she was on her way out the door at the
> State Department. The fact is, and everybody in Obama’s White House knows
> it, Joe Biden has a far greater grasp of foreign policy than she ever did,
> no matter how hard people try to turn her into John Foster Dulles.
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> Obama gave a lovely eulogy for Beau Biden
> <http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/obama-eulogy-funeral-service-beau-biden-article-1.2248951>
> the other day, he did, but then speeches have always been the best of it
> for him, bright work for him even in the darkest times. At one point, the
> President said this about his vice president, looking right at him:
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> “Joe, you are my brother, and I am grateful every day you have got such a
> big heart, and a big soul, and those broad shoulders. I could not admire
> you more.”
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> He ought to admire him, even in this time in America when people have too
> often missed the point on Biden’s humanity and his character and the story
> he has to tell and treated him like the Obama administration’s crazy uncle.
> But he is so much more than that. He ought to run for President, to honor
> the constituency he saw with his eyes last weekend, the America in those
> lines at St. Anthony of Padua.
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